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* KENAN. RENFREW. tributions to the iiionumciital llisloire lillcraire de hi I'niitcc (vols. 24-30), tiiuislalions of Joh (185S), The Hung of Honys (iSUO), Ecclesiustes (1S81), and many lesser essays. The titles and dates of the I'liilosophic Uniiiias are Valibaii (1878), L'eau dc juurcncc (1880), Le prctie dc Xiiiii (ISSJ), ISU,^, Ditiloijui drs marts (lS8(i), LUibbessc dc Jouuire (1887). There are Knglish translations of the whole liistoire dii peuplc d'lunti-l and of the Orininca du christidiiisiiic, of the j:t:idis and Xinivclles vliid<s, of Job and the SoiKj of .S'oHfl.f, and of the ^oiircnirs. For Kenan's life and charaeter consult his own Soiircnirs d'ciifaDcc et de jeunesse (1833), his feuiUes dc- tachies (1892), and Lettres intiines (189G); also the monographs hy Bourget, in Essais de ps;/- cholofiie contoiiporainc (Paris, 1883); Reinaeli (ib., '1893); Abbe d'Hulst (ib.. 1894); Soailles (ib., 1895); and Jlountstuart DulT (London, 1893) ; also Lomaitre, Le» contcmporains (Paris, 1890-92) : and Slonod, Les maitres d'histoire (ib., 1894). His son Ary ( 1858 — ), born in Paris, became known as a landscape and figure painter and art- critic, and was a pupil of Delaunay and of Puvis de Chavannes. He began to exhibit in the Salon in 1880, contributed many critical essays to the Gazette des Bcitnx-Arts, of which he afterwards became secretary, and in 1900 published an inter- esting monograph on Gustave Moreau (q.v.). RENDSBURG, rents'boorK. A towTi in the Province of Scldowig-Holstein. Prussia, situated on the Eider and the Kaiser-Wilhelm Canal, about 1.5 miles south of Schleswig (ilap: (Ger- many. D 1 ). It has a thirteenth-century church, a gynmasiuni, a Realschule, and manufactures of woolens, pianos, fertilizers, meat products, leath- er, and artificial stone. It carries on a consid- erable trade in lumber and cattle. Rendsburg is first mentioned in the twelfth century. Popula- tion, in 1900, 14,757, chiefly Prctcstaiits. REN:6, re-nil', surnamcd 'The Good' (1409-80), Count of Provence, Duke of Anjou and Lorraine, and titular King of Xajiles. He was born at Angers, January l(i, 1409. being the second son of Louis II. of Anjou and Provence. He married Isabella of Lorraine and claimed the succession to the Duchy of Lorraine in 1431, after the death of his fatlicr-in-law, Duke Charles. Being op- posed by another claimant, the Count of Vaude- mont, Ren? was defeated and taken prisoner, remaining a captive for several years. In 1434 he inherited Provence and Anjou on the death of his brother, Louis III. In 1437 he purchased his lil)erty and the possession of Lorraine by the payment of an immense sum. He now led an army into Italy to secure the Kingdom of Naples, the title to the succession to which had been left to him by Louis III., who luul been adopted as her successor by Queen .Joanna II., by whom Reno had been declared heir on the death of his brother. (See Joanka II.) He had a power- ful rival in Alfonso V. (q.v.). King of Aragon, who succeeded in capturing Naples in 1442. Weary of the vain struggle, Rene aban- doned tlio kingdom and returned to Provence, ■where his Coiirt at Aix became a famous resort for artists and poets. He sought to revive the poetry of old Proence. and his devo- tion to the forms of a rajndly disappearing chiv- alry gained him the name of the last of the Troubadours. Agriculture and manufactures Vol. XVII— 3. wore also encouraged and he earned his title of 'the Good.' He refused the crown of Aragon when oU'ered to him, but allowed his son to iic- cept it. His daughter, Margaret, marrie<l Henry VI. of England. After a long and prosperous rule, Rene died at Aix. He had no direct heira and his possessions, therefore, reverted to tlio French Crown, For his literary productions see Ohicrcs du roi Iteiw, edited bv Qualrcbarbes (4 vols,. Angers, 1844-46) ; and for his life. Le- roy de la Marche, Le roi Itciie, sa vie cl scs travaux (Paris, 1875) ; Villeneuve-Bargemont, llisloire de Itene d' Anjou, roi dc is'aplcs (ib., 1825) ; Champollion-Figeac, Lcs lournois du roi lienc (ib., 1820). RENEE (rc-mV) OF FRANCE (It. Uenala) ( 1510-e,lo74 ). . French jiriiici'ss. daughter of Louis XI L, born at RIois, and married in 1527 to Ercole IL, of the House of Este (q.v.), Duke of Ferrara. With him she dill'ered greatly on relighnis matters, being a zealous ]]atron of the Reformation, of Calvin, to whom slin gave refuge in 1535, and of Rruccioli, who dedicated to her his version of the Bible in Italian. Ercole's Catholicism made his wife a subject for the Inquisition. She was imprisoned in 1554, confessed and attended mass, but after her liberation resumed her allegiance to Prot- estantism. After her husband's death (1559) she returned to France, and there attemjitcd to unify the forces of Reform. Calvin wrote her many let- ters of counsel. Consult: Fontana, Jlriiiilii di Frniicifi, diit'hessa di Ferrara (Rome, 1888-93) ; and Rodocanachi, Renee de France (Paris, 18i)G). RENEVIER, ren''yiV, Eugene (1831 — ). A Swiss geologist, born and educated in Lausanne. There he became professor of geology, paleontol- ogy, and mineralogy in 1857, curator of the 'au- dois Geological Jluseum in 18U4, and a founder of the Swiss Geological Society and of the Pale- ontological Association (1874). Besides many important contributions to periodicals and work on the international geological chart of Europe, he wrote Description des fossiles du terrain aptien (1854-58, with Pictet) ; Notices sur les Alpes vaudoises (1864-79) ; Varte yfoUniiiiue des Alpes vaudoises (1875-77); Oroip-aphic des Ihiules Alpes (3d ed. 1881) ; and Vhronoyraphie f/colofiiijue (1890). REN'FREW. A southwestern county of Scot- land, liniuKhd oil the north and west by the River and Firth of Cly: Scotland, D 4), Area, 24.5 square miles. Renfrew is very uneven in its surface, and consequently in the nature and quality of its soil. .t the Hill of Stake, on the Ayr'shire border, the land rises to 1711 feet. Over two-thirds of the arable land is devoted to dairy farming. There arc ex^ tensive mineral deposits in the county, and the exportation of coal, oil, and inmstone employs a large number of people. Chief towns, Renfrew, the capital. Greenock, Port Glasgow, and Paisley (qq.v.). Poimlation. in 1801, 78,500; in 1851, 101,100; in 1891, 2.30,812; in 1901, 208,900. RENFREW. A royal. Parliamentary, and municipal Imrgh, capital of Rx-nfrewshire, Scot- land on the Clyde, six miles west-northwest of Glassrow (Map:" Scotland. D 4). The Renfrew Grammar School and BIythswood Testinionial, originally endowed by charter of Robert III., is